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1. A new use for an oxygenating device commonly used to provide an oxygen enriched air to a human patient wherein such device is adapted to provide such oxygen enriched air as part of a fuel-air mixture delivered to an internal combustion engine, and wherein an improvement of said device comprises in part a modification of a location and structure of a filtered air intake component of said device, said modification comprising an attachment of said filtered air intake component at an outer wall portion of an enclosure housing said device and in which said attachment allows a passage of said terminal orifice of said filtered air intake through said outer wall element such that said orifice is in a direct contact with an externally situated ambient air mass; a further improvement comprising a modification of a location and structure of a waste-air purge tube of said device, which said modification comprises in part that a terminal orifice of said purge tube component be in an attachment at an outer wall portion of an enclosure housing said device, which said attachment allows a passage of said terminal orifice of said purge component through said outer wall element such that said orifice is in a direct contact with an ambient, externally situated air source; said attachment of said purge tube component, as far as is practical, being placed in a situation at a remove from said attachment of said filtered air intake component. |
